* Valiente, Doreen.

* Valiente, Doreen.

There is also a poetic paraphrased version written by High Priestess Doreen Valiente in the mid 1950s, which is contained within the traditional Gardnerian Book of Shadows.

The third paragraph is largely written by Doreen Valiente, with some phrases adapted from The Book of the Law and The Gnostic Mass by Aleister Crowley.

Doreen Valiente, a student of Gardner, took his version from his Book of Shadows and adapted it into verse, and later into another prose version.

The initial verse version by Doreen Valiente consisted of eight verses, the second of which was:

While Doreen Valiente writes that in Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches full moon rites were known as Esbats in the rest of Europe, she later finds it necessary to specify " full moon Esbat ," to distinguish it from other esbat occasions.

Doreen Valiente, a Gardnerian High Priestess, revealed that there were more than one.

Doreen Valiente, one of Gardner's priestesses, later identified the woman who initiated Gardner as Dorothy Clutterbuck, referenced in A Witches ' Bible by Janet and Stewart Farrar.

Doreen Valiente wrote much of the best-known poetry, including the much-quoted Charge of the Goddess.

In 1953 Gardner met Doreen Valiente who was to become his High Priestess in succession to Dafo.

Founding a Wiccan group known as the Bricket Wood coven, he introduced a string of High Priestesses into the religion, including Doreen Valiente, Lois Bourne, Patricia Crowther and Eleanor Bone, through which the Gardnerian community spread throughout Britain and subsequently into Australia and the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The pioneers of the various Wiccan or Witchcraft traditions, such as Gerald Gardner, Doreen Valiente and Robert Cochrane, all claimed that their religion was a continuation of the pagan religion of the Witch-Cult following historians who had purported the Witch-Cult's existence, such as Jules Michelet and Margaret Murray.

Doreen Valiente writes that the Horned God also carries the souls of the dead to the underworld.

Doreen Valiente has called the Horned God " the eldest of gods " in both The Witches Creed and also in her Invocation To The Horned God.

A Wiccan altar belonging to Doreen Valiente, displaying the Wiccan view of sexual duality in divinity.

Originally written by Wiccan High Priestess Doreen Valiente in the mid-1950s, Harvey noted that the recitation of the Charge in the midst of ritual allows Wiccans to gain wisdom and experience deity in " the ordinary things in life ".

Doreen Valiente, one of Gardner's priestesses, recalls Gardner's surprise at Valiente's recognition of material from Aradia in the original version of the " Charge " that she was given.

Note: this is the first published form of the couplet, quoted from Doreen Valiente in 1964.

In its best known form as the " eight words " couplet, the Rede was first publicly recorded in a 1964 speech by Doreen Valiente.

" In the various traditions that make up British Traditional Wicca, copies of the original Book composed by Gerald Gardner with the aid of his High Priestess Doreen Valiente, along with alterations and additions that have been made since then, is followed by adherents.

Doreen Valiente claimed that this was because at the time, Gardner had not yet conceived of the idea, and only invented it after writing his novel.

High Priestess Doreen Valiente made the claim that Gardner found the term " Book of Shadows " from a 1949 edition ( Volume I, Number 3 ) of a magazine known as The Occult Observer.

In 1953, Doreen Valiente joined Gardner's Bricket Wood coven, and soon rose to become its High Priestess.

* Dame Doreen Blumhardt, former WCE lecturer

* Doreen Banks former Parks Commissioner for Nassau County, former 2nd District Councilwoman Town of North Hempstead, former Nassau County Clerk and former North Hempstead Town Clerk

* William Alwyn marries fellow-composer Doreen Carwithen, his former pupil.

Broadbent was born in Holton cum Beckering, the son of Doreen " Dee " Broadbent ( née Findlay ), a sculptor, and Roy Laverick Broadbent, an artist, sculptor, interior designer, and furniture maker who turned a former church into a theatre named after him.

His son, the 9th Marquess, who succeeded in 1955, was often known as Alistair Londonderry and was married twice, latterly to the former Royal Ballet principal dancer Doreen Wells.

Prebble's wife Doreen, from whom he is separated, is a Solomon Islander and a former Honorary Consul for the Solomon Islands in New Zealand.

Bird is most noted as the founder and former principal of the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts ( now Bird College ), one of the UK's foremost dance and performing arts colleges, with former students working worldwide, including cast members of West End and Broadway musicals.

In 1952 Wickremesinghe's wife, the English-born Doreen Young Wickremasinghe, a former leader of the Suriya-Mal Movement, was elected to the Sri Lankan parliament.

In 2002, Doreen Waddell, a former singer with Soul II Soul living in Hove, died after being hit by three cars while fleeing from a shoplifting incident.

Doreen Dodick ( born February 17, 1932 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan ) is a former politician in Manitoba, Canada.

His mother, Doreen ( née Pienaar ), is former director of the Harvard's Human Rights film series at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and his father, Julian Beinart, is a former professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

His wife Lady Doreen Jones is a former Lady Mayoress and his daughter-in-law Mia Jones was a councillor for Chester City Council and was a candidate in the 2005 General Election.

The next storylines related to the Bacchus mythos were again serialised, this time in Dark Horse Presents as Hermes vs the Eyeball Kid ( 1993-1994 ) and The Picture Of Doreen Grey ( 1995 ), the former also collected as a three issue mini-series in 1994-1995.

* Ameth-AKA Doreen Valiente, Gardner's first High Priestess.

Two of her novels, The Sea Priestess and Moon Magic, became influential within the religion of Wicca, especially upon Doreen Valiente.

In the 1970s, the Alexandrians Janet Farrar and Stewart Farrar decided, with the consent of Doreen Valiente, that much of the Gardnerian book should be published in its true form.

Gerald Gardner ( 1884 – 1964 ) who, with Doreen Valiente ( 1922 – 1999 ) founded Gardnerian Wicca in Britain, claimed to be initiated in the 1940s into a surviving coven of traditional witches, who worshipped both a male Horned God and a female Goddess.